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Park Lands Storyboard Sign, City of Adelaide.

On this Spot! Notable Places in the City of Adelaide Online Database

Bring the City of Adelaide’s hidden history and changing landscape to life with the ‘On this Spot! Notable Places in the City of Adelaide’ interactive map. Learn about the City of Adelaide’s social and cultural history – the people, places and events – with information available for 80+ locations. 

There are lots of fascinating facts to discover!

  • In 1963 there were well over a thousand livestock grazing on the Park Lands.
  • An early Adelaide Mayor personally funded three of our children’s playgrounds.
  • Adelaide was the first city in Australia to have a deep drainage sewerage system.

Prefer the fresh air and outdoors? No problem. Use the interactive map on your smartphone to locate and explore the physical storyboards in each of the notable spots.

Access On this Spot! Notable Places in the City of Adelaide here.

Presented by City of Adelaide